Retail

With above average turnover and seasonal hiring patterns in an industry that must proactively manage risks associated with loss prevention, retail HR executives face unique hiring challenges. Meet these challenges head on with First Advantage.   

  • Assessments – Innovative retail industry skills and behavioral assessments help you hire, develop and promote the people who can make a difference in your organization. Learn more 
  • Background Screening – Providing integrated, flexible systems that include substance abuse testing, fingerprinting and global screening capabilities, along with retail industry-specific searches, First Advantage helps companies mitigate hiring risks. Learn more 
  • Tax Credits and Incentives – Turn your HR department into a profit center by screening new hires for WOTC and other hiring tax credit eligibility. Learn more 
  • I9/E-Verify – Save time, improve your compliance efforts and standardize your processes with First Advantage’s SAFEi9 solution. Providing a seamless interface with DHS for E-Verify verification, e-signatures, forms digitization and comprehensive reporting tools for audits, First Advantage helps many of the nation’s largest retail organizations standardize their I9 processes. Learn more 
  • Job Distribution Technology – Streamline your recruitment advertising with flexible and efficient job board posting tools. Learn more 
  • Substance Abuse Testing – First Advantage delivers many of the nation’s largest retail services firms a wide array of cost-effective screening tools including urine, hair, saliva, breath alcohol testing, along with best practice compliance and policy support, flexible scheduling and reporting tools and much more. Learn more 

Fast Fact

The rate of positive results for all types of substance abuse screening tests was 2.5 percent for the retail industry, lower than the overall national average of 3.6 percent. Get more facts in First Advantage’s Screening Benchmark Report for the Retail Industry.